The Westchester County Fair Campaign Practices Committee ruled in favor of two of the three complaints filed by Port Chester Village Trustee Democratic candidate Daniel Brakewood against Republican opponents and Mayoral candidate Neil Pagano.
Committee members met March 16 at the Scarsdale Library with representatives from both sides and ruled a campaign piece supporting Pagano for Mayor and Trustee candidates Joe Kenner, Sam Terenzi and Frank Ferarra failed to identify whom paid for the piece and was therefore an unfair campaign practice. Michael Scarola, a representative for the Republican nominees, conceded on this point.
A pro-Pagano campaign piece claiming the Mayoral candidate helped reduce spending by $2 million was ruled unfair because it misleadingly implied the candidate was a member of the Board.
Mr. Brakewood also filed a complaint against two campaign pieces supporting the Pagano and Kenner claiming Kenner voted to lower the tax levy by 5 percent. Brakewood claimed the budget to which the piece refers was adopted by default and therefore no vote was cast. However, the committee ruled against this claim because it found Kenner had participated in all votes leading up to the budget passing.
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http://www.faircampaignpractices.org/VillanovaVsPilla031109.doc
The present concern is the 2013 election. I don't doubt that all of the above have told lies and distorted their opponents' comments and actions for their gain. But we are talking about the here and now - and recent news accounts of the actions of Mr. Pagano, Trustee Didden, and Trustee Terenzi, in my opinion, cause concern that outweighs any "the other guy does it to"-type argument.
http://o2.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/patch/6c47b3e81483c33281ebd79a63b090d Mr. Noor, as I stated in a prior post, I am not voting for any of them, just trying to keep a even playing field. If it is about here and now, why are we criticizing Bart and Pagano, for exercising their rights as property owners, for contesting tax assessments, that in my opinion is a flawed system, for years they weren't even in office? I know the "improving commercial tax base" argument but improving the tax base means G&S getting that ugly parking lot out of Liberty Square and put a commercial building on it, like they are supposed to, to get maximum taxes, not criticizing people for exercising their fundamental rights as US citizens in contesting their assessment.